State v. Murphy

— Appellant, James Michael Murphy, was charged (by information filed by the state of Washington, respondent herein, on October 6, 1959), with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed as follows:

“He, the said James Michael Murphy, in the County of King, State of Washington, on or about the 2nd day of October, 1958, with a premiditated design to effect the death of one Robert Jack Blair, a human being, and while then and there engaged in committing, attempting to commit or in withdrawing from the scene of the commission ■ of a felony, to-wit: Robbery, willfully,…